11,413.57
" 501 | Aug. 4, 1842 | 10,543.42
" 615 | March 3, 1843 | 5,000
IX. 96 | Aug. 10, 1846 | 25,000
XI. 90 | " 18, 1856 | 8,000
" 227 | March 3, 1857 | 8,000
" 404 | " 3, 1859 | 75,000
XII. 21 | May 26, 1860 | 40,000
" 132 | Feb. 19, 1861 | 900,000
" 219 | March 2, 1861 | 900,000
" 639 | Feb. 4, 1863 | 17,000
XIII. 424 | Jan. 24, 1865 | 17,000
XIV. 226 | July 25, 1866 | 17,000
" 415 | Feb. 28, 1867 | 17,000
XV. 58 | March 30, 1868 | 12,500
" 321 | March 3, 1869 | 12,500
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Total, 50 years $2,386,666.99
Minus surpluses re-appropriated (approximate) 48,666.99?
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$2,338,000
Cost of squadron, 1843-58, @ $384,500 per year
(_House Exec. Doc._, 31 Cong. 1 sess. IX. No. 73) 5,767,500
Returning slaves on "Wildfire" (_Statutes at Large_,
XII. 41) 250,000
Approximate cost of squadron, 1858-66, probably not
less than $500,000 per year 4,000,000?
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Approximate money cost of suppressing the
slave-trade $12,355,500?

Cf. Kendall's Report: _Senate Doc._, 21 Cong. 2 sess. I. No. 1, pp.
211-8; _Amer. State Papers, Naval_, III. No. 429 E.; also Reports of
the Secretaries of the Navy from 1819 to 1860.

65. ~Enforcement of the Supplementary Acts, 1818-1825.~ A somewhat more
sincere and determined effort to enforce the slave-trade laws now
followed; and yet it is a significant fact that not until Lincoln's
administration did a slave-trader suffer death for violating the laws of
the United States. The participation of Americans in the trade
continued